
Age: 52
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Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor, director, writer, and producer. He has appeared in the films Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), Warrior (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), Black Mass (2015), Loving (2016), It Comes at Night (2017), and Red Sparrow (2018) and The King (2019). In 2015, Edgerton received a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film for The Gift, a psychological horror-thriller film Edgerton wrote, directed, co-produced, and in which he co-starred. Edgerton garnered further critical acclaim for his performance as Richard Loving in the 2016 historical drama Loving, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 2018, he wrote, directed and starred in the drama Boy Erased, about gay conversion therapy. In 2019, he starred and co-wrote The King.

Eragon, a young farmer, has his life turned upside down when a dragon egg magically appears in front of him during a hunt. Once it hatches, it grows up quickly and its presence starts to arouse suspicion, so fleeing his home, Eragon and his dragon Saphira make their way into the big wide world with Brom, an old man from his village. But danger follows them everywhere they go, and soon, Eragon is tangled up in a mess from the ancient Dragon Rider times, and only time will tell if he and Saphira are up to the challenge of defeating the evil king, Galbatorix!

